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Lot # 753: Wonderful Boxing Autograph Collection (260+)

Starting Bid: $300.00

Bids: 17 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "2019 Spring Classic",
which ran from 5/7/2019 10:00 AM to
6/7/2019 10:00 PM



All from Cleveland area autograph seeker and former Golden Gloves boxing champ, Steve K. (hence his access to top fighters). Best of the best includes: 1950 Max Baer vintage signed Hollywood still (nice!), 1989 Muhammad Ali signed "Muhammad Ali Cologne" promo photo, Angelo Dundee signed "Cassius Clay" photo, Ali signed "The Ring" cover (1979), three Muhammad Ali signed religious pamphlets (1989-1991), 1950 Max Baer signed album page, 1949 Jack Dempsey signed album page w/attached flower (his), Larry Holmes signed 1982 KO Magazine (2), Floyd Mayweather 1999 Boxing Digest cover & mag (2), and several Macho Camacho. There are several each of: Joey Maxim, Gene & Don Fullmer, Carmen Basilio, Don King, Duran, Foreman, Patterson, Emanuel, Steward, De La Hoya, Mayweather, Camacho, Bivins, Mancini and Hearns. Also multiples of Holmes, Frazier, Holyfield, Whitaker, Shavers, Foreman, Sugar Ray Leonard, Norton, Conn, and many more. Please allow for a few secretarial (not the best stuff). All kinds of things but mostly photos. Some great stuff here.

 

This amazing collection of 30,000 autographs was obtained in person by one of the pioneering autograph hounds, Steve Kostrubanic. This Cleveland-area native wandered outside the theaters and sports venues of Cleveland searching for celebrities from the late 1940s right up to the early 2000s. He was fluent in all areas of popular culture including baseball, football, boxing, sports, rock ‘n’ roll, music, cinema, theater, television and more. His later job as Senator Jacob Javitz’s personal driver gave him even greater access to the rich and famous. A Golden Gloves Boxing Champion, he is a member of the Ohio State Boxing Hall of Fame. 

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